Donald Trump on Health Care
“We must have universal healthcare.”
http://www.ontheissues.org/Donald_Trump.htm
In His own words:
I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on health. It is an unacceptable but accurate fact that the number of uninsured Americans has risen to 42 million. Working out detailed plans will take time. But the goal should be clear: Our people are our greatest asset. We must take care of our own. We must have universal healthcare.
Our objective [should be] to make reforms for the moment and, longer term, to find an equivalent of the single-payer plan that is affordable, well-administered, and provides freedom of choice. Possible? The good news is, yes. There is already a system in place-the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program-that can act as a guide for all healthcare reform. It operates through a centralized agency that offers considerable range of choice. While this is a government program, it is also very much market-based. It allows 620 private insurance companies to compete for this market. Once a year participants can choose from plans which vary in benefits and costs.
Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p.206-208 & 218 Jul 2, 2000
“We must have universal healthcare.”
Do you somehow think that we do not have universal healthcare? Everyone in the U.S., citizen or not, gets whatever healthcare they need, it's just a question of how it's being paid for. There are no people dying on the streets of the U.S. because they cannot obtain healthcare. It is universally available, has been for a long time and will be in the future. The fight is over how it will be provided, who will control it and how it will be paid for.